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Title: The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Triplett, Frank
Subjects: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Hendricks, Thomas Andrews, 1819-1885. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and St. Louis, N. D. Thompson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s, in which he pictured to themthe many advantages not only of climate, soil and materialwealth, but also in the grander scope and freedom of theNew World. Owinof to this address numbers of Scotchmencame to Pennsylvania, and by them the Cumberland valleywas chiefly settled. These men and their descendants furnished many soldiersto the armies of the immortal Washington, and contributedtheir mite to the success of the American armies. Many oftheir descendants may be found in that section to this day;but John Hendricks, not long after his marriage, concludedto try his fortunes in the farther West, and, packing hiseffects into good strong wagons, he turned his face towardthe setting sun, and found a new location near Zanesville,Ohio. Here the family remained some time, but when the sub-ject of our sketch was only six months old, another removal—this time to Madison, Indiana,—was determined on. Onereason for this change of location was the residence of a 198 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF
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HENDRICKS HOME AT MADISON, INDIANA. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS. 199 brother of John Hendricks at Madison. This brother,William Hendricks, was a noted man in his day and gene-ration, having represented his district in Congress, occupiedthe Gubernatorial chair of his State, and afterwards repre-sented Indiana in the United States Senate. He was a manof ability and intellect, and was universally esteemed forhis integrity and sterling worth. On the banks of the lovely Ohio, Thomas A. Hendricksspent the happiest years of his life—those of his childhood—imbibing from his ancestors their noble ideas, as he hadinherited from them his keen, shrewd mind and maijnificentconstitution. In politics he made his uncle his exemplar,and no grander one could have been selected. Like Chev-alier Bayard he was truly a man without fear and withoutreproach; one to whose skirts nothing unclean dared attachitself, and whose devotion to duty was unbounded. Theworld knows whether his nephew—who sat at the feet of

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